The Lithuanian National Police officially joined AMBER Alert Europe and will now issue alerts in child abduction cases. On October 10, 2019, Lithuania joined 21 countries with 33 organizations using the tools and methods of the AMBER Alert program. “(This) enables us to spread information about these cases all over Europe, while learning about the latest technologies in the search for missing persons. All of the above, will highly contribute to finding missing children,” said Irena Ambrasaite, Chief Specialist at the Lithuanian Criminal Police Bureau.

Lithuania is the first Nordic country and the 19th member of the European Union to implement an AMBER Alert system. Lithuania began the abducted child alert system on March 14, 2018, to help recover missing and abducted children. The program alerts law enforcement and sends photos and information about the missing child to all Facebook users within 200 kilometers from where the child was last located. Belgium, Cyprus, The Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, and the United Kingdom already have a national child alert system in place. Bulgaria also launched its national AMBER Alert program earlier this year.

Forty police officers as well as politicians from 10 European countries met for an AMBER Alert training on October 24, 2017. Charlie Hedges, AMBER Alert Europe's Police Network Coordinator, shared best practices on handling missing children’s cases at the meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania. “A quick risk assessment is crucial to identify the correct response to save a child whose life is in immediate danger,” said Hedges.